Tobacco-pipe cleaner.



A. W. P. CRAIVIER.

TOBACCO P IPE CLEANER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 17, 1915.

a Patent-ed Dec. 19m.

i ANTHON W. PUTMAN CRAIVIER, 0F WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

TOBACCO-PIPE CLEANER.

tobacco pipes, same have come to myattention, inadequate for properlydoing the work, principally because of the liability, due to theirshape, of under-cutting the incrustation in the pipe and consequentlybreaking, cutting, or otherwise damaging the bowl thereof.

The object of my invention is the pro vision of a tobacco pipe cleanerso constructed that the sides of the cutter head are substantiallyparallel, in order to make the cut, in cleaning the bowl of the pipe, inalinement with the aXis of the bowl, thus obviating the liability ofunder-cutting the incrustation and consequently injuring the pipe bowl.

I am also aware that heretofore various devices have been adopted forpacking the tobacco in the bowl ofa pipe. For example, a disk with ahandle attached thereto has been employed for this purpose. In the useof such an instrument, however, there is a tendency, not easily avoided,to pack the tobacco so tightly that the pipe will not draw. In designingmy improved pipe cleaner, I have therefore so constructed the handlethereof that it may be employed for packing the tobacco into the pipebowl around the edges of the bowl so as to prevent the tobacco becomingtoo tightly packed more particularly. described, with the accompanyingdrawing, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a pipe cleanershowing the same applied to a tobacco pipe which is illustrated inperspective. 'Fig. 2 is a section through a tobacco Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed July 17, 1915. Serial No.

of this incrustation sharpened edge,

Patented. et. a, ram. 40,380..

pipe showing the pipe cleaner in an end edge elevation to illustrate themanner in which ghe tobacco may be packed in the bowl. Fig.

proved on line 4-, 4, Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawing, my improved pipe cleaner preferably comprisesa cutter head 10,

is sharpened from both surfaces,

substantially parallel sides 12 and 13, the

as clearlyindicated in the drawing, extending a material distance intothe parallel sides. .Extending from the cut- 17, both of which are ofmaterially larger diameter than the width of the handle. I Thehereinbefore described pipe cleaner is preferably stamped u from sheetmetal and, as is indicated in ig. l, the cutter head 0 may be insertedin the bowl 18 of the pipe 19 and the instrument turned in one or bothdirections, to remove the cake or lining of carbon which accumulates ina pipe, the substantially parallel side of the cutter head being of thesame or nearly the same width as the diameter of the making itimpossible to under-cut the layer of carbon, therebyobviating thepossibility of cutting, cracking, or otherwise injuring the pipe.

By reference to that either end of the handle may be employed to packthe. tobacco, indicated at 20, 'in the bowl of the pipe from the edgesthereof in such a manner that the tobacco at the center of the bowl isnot packed as tightly as that adjacent the walls thereof, so that allthe tobacco in the bowl will not be so tightly packed as to prevent thepipe from drawing properly.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a tobaccopipe'cleaner comprising a flat cutter head having a round end andparallel noncutting sides, a shank extending therefrom, and a crosspiece associated with said shank andbeingappreciably longer thanthewidth of head so as to serve as a grip in the use of the article. 7

Signed by me this 8th day of July, 1915.

- A. W. PUIMAN CR a ER.

the cutter" pipe bowl, v

2, it will be seen sharpened edge at one

